The Ubi­days 08 are over and Ubisoft has clar­i­fied a few things about the next install­ment in its very suc­cess­ful Prince of Per­sia fran­chise. First of all, the new Prince of Per­sia will fea­ture a prince, not the prince we all came to know dur­ing the Sands of Time tril­ogy. That means, of course, that the new prince will be totally sep­a­rate from the SoT tril­ogy. In addi­tion, he gets a new look and a new female com­pan­ion, Elika. Well, let’s start at the beginning.

The game is set in an ancient fan­tasy Per­sia, where our hero will get caught up in the bat­tle between the God of Light, Ormazd, ver­sus his twin brother Ahri­man, the God of Dark­ness. Obvi­ously, the Prince arrives just in time to wit­ness the destruc­tion of the leg­endary Tree of Life. This act threat­ens to plunge the entire world into eter­nal dark­ness and so our hero will find him­self in a world of light and dark where he has to fight to stop the rise of Ahri­man. Thus, he will sort of become Ormazd’s champion.

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